Comic Title: Justice League of America #48
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Nov/Dec 1966
On Sale Date: September 1, 1966 Copyright Date September 1, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., Apr., July & Oct.; (semi-monthly, Nov.)
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 80
Editor: Julius Schwartz

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Notes:
This issue is also numbered as 80 Page Giant #G-29.

Title: "Challenge of the Weapons Master"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Justice League of America (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #29 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice League of America (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)
• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #264; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #109)
• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #278; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #109)
• Flash (last appearance in Flash #112; next appearance in Flash #113)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #113; next appearance in Wonder Woman #114)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Detective Comics #278; next appearance in Detective Comics #279)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #271; next appearance in Adventure Comics #272)

Supporting Character(s)

• Snapper Carr (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)

Villain(s)

• Xotar (an arch-criminal of 11,960 A.D.; no further appearances)
• Ilaric (Xotar's robot; also functions as a time machine; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Intersolar Police (law officers of 11,960 A.D.; no further appearances)
• General Morgan Anderson and Chief Warner Hunter (officials of a Florida missile base; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Arch-criminal Xotar of the year 11,960 A.D. has collected an arsenal of four super-weapons, one of which, a partly legible page of the JLA casebook informs him, will enable him to defeat the Justice League. Since the police of his era have counter-weapons to three of his devices, but he does not know which ones, he journeys back in time to battle the super-heroes, and learns which weapon is the unbeatable one.

Paralyzing the members in their Secret Sanctuary mountain headquarters, he releases them individually to fight against the various weapons: Flash overcomes the Microscopitor, which has shrunk him in size, Aquaman and J’onn J’onzz defeat the De-Evolutionizer Ray, and Green Lantern and Wonder Woman triumph over the Magneto-Bubble weapon. All five heroes are saved from the fourth device, an Illusion-Maker, which creates imaginary, undefeatable menaces, by the appearance of Superman, who had been located by Batman and Snapper, after his non-appearance at the team’s recent meeting.

Returned to his own time, Xotar discovers that the full text of the Casebook entry chronicles his defeat, instead of his victory.